Maybe you would like to try this. Unroll a few feet of aluminum foil on a carpeted floor and then walk on the foil. What do you see?
A Sunday school teacher asked Conner, one of his students, to shut his eyes. Then the teacher walked quietly to the back of the carpeted room and then up to the front again where he had started.
“Okay, Conner, open your eyes. Now see if you can walk exactly where I walked.”
“I can’t do that,” Conner said. “You told me to shut my eyes, and I couldn’t see where you went!”
Then the teacher said, “Some people say they can’t see Jesus, so they can’t follow Him. But now I want you to close your eyes again.”
As soon as Conner had closed his eyes, his teacher unrolled a long strip of aluminum foil on top of the carpet. Then he walked where he had walked before. When he was back at the front of the room, he told Conner to open his eyes. “Now can you walk exactly where I walked?”
“Yes,” said Conner. Jumping up, he placed his feet in his teacher’s footprints that were clearly marked in the foil. “It’s easy now!” he said.
Jesus didn’t leave His footprints on foil, but if we read our Bibles we can see very plainly what He was like and how He walked through this world. He says to us, “Follow Me” (Luke 9:2323And he said to them all, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily, and follow me. (Luke 9:23)). Be sure to read your Bible prayerfully every day, and Jesus will help you to trust Him and walk in His steps. “Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path” (Psalm 119:105105NUN. Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path. (Psalm 119:105)).